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- From: Treble@asc.slb.com (John Treble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: What is Maelstrom 1.03 game doing while loading?
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- Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:29:10 GMT
- Organization: ASC-Austin
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- In article <iscjcw-110193140321@ajax.ucop.edu>, iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
- (Jerry Wilcox) wrote:
-
- > I haven't poked into the program, but I would assume that it is busily
- > loading all of the resources (sprites, sounds, etc) that the program needs
- > to have available *quickly* while the game is being played. If you watch
- > while you are playing, the program doesn't appear to do any disk accesses
- > at all (except when you change your control setup) which would be
- > compatible with the idea that all resources are loaded at startup.
- >
- > Why don't you try running Maelstrom in its own partition if you are
- > worried. As far as the "searching", have you thought that your hard drive
- > may be fragmented and Maelstrom is having to look all over the place for
- > its pieces. Perhaps try a defrag.
- > -----------
- > Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
- > All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
- > University wanted me to speak for it.
-
- All those staccato-like disk accesses gave me the creeps too! So I just
- loaded up a RAM disk, & copied Maelstrom to it. It loads much faster, and
- without all that cha-cha-cha music on my hard disk. (I have a DataFrame
- XP60 that is about five years old. I have replaced far too many DataFrames
- in my depatment lately, so I treat this disk with tender loving care (and
- backup regularly!))
-
- treble@asc.slb.com "My humble, but accurate, opinion does not necessarily
- reflect that of my employer. I get full credit for my insightful and witty
- comments!"
-